Reviews by Fatehunter:

Big three fingers of head, copper colored body.
A nice grain and fresh bread smell.
Good malt flavor with just enough sweetness. Smooth all the way through with almost no bitter profile.
Almost a creamy texture, soft with low carbonation and medium body.
An excellent märzen.

T: Opens with an airy malt and nuttiness with a somewhat surprising degree of sweetness that surges early and quickly fades. Yields to a nicely balanced hop bitterness and semi-dry, clean finish. Scant grain and trace of hops in the aftertaste. No alcohol presence of significance.

O: Quaffable and tasty Marzen. Downed a liter of this lickety-split. Let it warm up a bit and you will appreciate added layers of complexity without any drop in drinkability. This is when this one really shines.

Appearance: Cloudy orange amber with a big froth white head, damn good head retention with a bubbly rocky formation.

Smell: Whiffs of mild alcohol, caramel to the point of it being a melanoidian-like aroma with undertones of bread and cracker graininess. Sweet to the nose.

Taste: Medium to full in body with a superb texture, smoothness and crispness position for dominance. Hard bread like malt flavours that are almost cracker like. Restrained hop bitterness is slapped around by the malt for a little while and seems to never recover but still have the strength to balance. Malt flavour is big, sweetness wraps around the tongue and leaves a big impression of malt. Alcohol is squashed in the middle of the malt character yet still lends a sweet and spicy ghost like ester. Finally some spiciness comes through from the hops and mellows the malt and drops a trail of leafy herbal hop flavour also. Complex dry grain and husk linger.

Notes: Oktoberfest in the raw, seems a little rushed from years before. Flavours are not well blended and out of whack with a need to mellow out some more. Perhaps the yeast strain is getting a little stir crazy also? Enough of the babble, this is a decent brew and might beer hard to get used to. Some may like it some may not.

500 ml bottle, the beer pours a mostly clear dark gold/amber color with about an inch frothy off-white head that sticks around a while. There's also a lot of lacing. Aroma is nice, the brew smells like caramel and bready malt, honey, and light earthy hops. Taste is pretty much just like the aroma, but with the addition of a bit of apple and dark fruit. Mouthfeel/body is medium, it's smooth and easy to drink with moderate carbonation. I thought this was a good Oktoberfest brew, I'd buy this again in the future. $3.49 a bottle.

2002 release. Pours a very hazy orange with a big frothy soap bubble head. Aroma of yeast, bread-like and grainy malt, along with a bit of alcohol presence. Bread-like malt dominates the palate, along with a malty sweetness. Hops are along for the ride, but struggle to hang on, showing themselves occasionally. Spicy alcohol and a seperate spicy character are present in the background. Grainy and sweet dry finish. This is a bit aggressive for a märzen. That's part of what makes it good, although I did find the alcohol presence to be a bit too much for the style. Still great to sit down with a half-liter (or better yet, a liter) of.

M/D: Lighter side of medium bodied, carbonation on the higher end- a touch too much for my liking, drinkability is good. 3.5

O: Nice example of the style. Blanket statements are dangerous, but in general the American breweries tend to do a pretty poor job of emulating this style, and in the rare occurrence that I will go for an Oktoberfest, it will nearly always been one from one of the traditional German powerhouses. 4

Dark gold color with a nice tan head and good carbonation throughout leaves good lace. Light bready, grainy and hop aromas. Good balanced flavor: grainy, bready, a bit nutty, and a bit hoppy (for the style). Lighter bodied than most but leans medium and smooth. May seem so due to good carbonation.

I am an outlier because I prefer beers in the style of oktoberfests. This is the best oktoberfest I have had (or can remember at the moment). It is good from the first sip until the bottle is finished. No awkward initial tastes until the palate adjusts. This beer is worthy of the 5 i wanted to give it, but it seems like I had to justify it

I have said over and over I am not a huge fan of the style, yet I have bought a few to compare this season to make sure I am not overly critical. I guess my palate has been wrecked from drinking so many IPA's and DIPA's this summer. Nevertheless, this one is pretty damn good for a cool early fall evening. Price isn't bad considering its a half liter.

Color: Typical Marzen. Maybe a bit lighter than some American offerings.

Taste: This one is a stand out to me. I assume this one was fairly fresh because they guy said it had just come in. It tasted fresh. Crisper than the other Oktoberfest beers I have recently tried. Which I like about this one. Still a bit too malty for my personal preference. This is a beer you could session the hell out of though. They really don't have a lot of flavor other than caramel and some sweetness, but not overly cloying with this one, which I think some American styles do border on.

Overall: One of the better representations of the style. I guess for good reason its an actual German Marzen.

T: 4 Like the nose, there’s a lot of honey going on. The bready malt and yeast compliment the honey and cinnamon well. Flavors are a bit more and Belgian than I was expecting, but the malt still brings German flavors as well.

M: 4.25 Fairly rich and thick, but still easy drinking. The carbonation is a bit low which works well considering the flavors in this beer.

O: 4.25 This beer has a lot going on for the style. Interesting and satisfying without being too heavy. Great for the transition into winter.

Poured into mug. It pours a clear amber with copper hues and one finger of foamy, milk-white head and extensive lacing that did not dissipate through the pour. It smells of dark bread, nuts, spice, and a whiff of caramel. The taste is sweeter than the smell with abundant caramel, bready malt, nuts, spice, and a slight apple or raisin fruitiness at the finish. It is medium-bodied with pleasant carbonation, and the 5.8% ABV is barely noticeable. This is a very easy drinking beer. Overall, it is a delightful Marzen that is perfect for outdoor drinking on a crisp autumn afternoon. It's one of the best Marzens I've had.

Radiant orange body with a small white cap. Aromas of lager yeast, subtle spice, fruity malt. Smells true to style. Clean and easy drinking. A good Oktoberfest bier is a thing of beauty. It's that time of year. A solid German brew.

Pours a pale amber color with a bit of an orange tint. Mild haze. Large, frothy tan colored head which lasts forever. Continuous bubbles rise from the bottom of the glass keeping the head from ever completely disappearing. Good sticky lacing.

Heavy caramel malt on the first whiff. Some nuttiness. Faint spice, maybe nutmeg. Honey and pear.

Taste is as malty as the aroma. Caramel and toffee. Raw grain, biscuit, and honey. Some apple and pear flavors.

Pours a copper color with a little orange tint to it with a pretty nice head,the aroma is very doughy and and toasted.The taste is pretty sweet at first with some definent bread-like undertones,there is a dryeness in the finish.I like a good marzen to have more sweetness to it this is a little dry but It is pretty well made and drinkable.

Appearance  Very light and clear in the body with a beautiful head that went down slowly, leaving lots of volcanic pits and some sporadic lacing.

Smell  Very light and sugary sweet malt aroma.

Taste  The light malty taste contains a bit of caramel and sugar but has a funny, almost hoppy finish that seems out of place. Its not big though so things arent completely ruined. Its just a little off.

Mouthfeel  Light-bodied and sweet. This one tries to be chewy but cant quite get there.

Drinkability  This went down nicely and would be well at home at a Bayern Oktoberfest celebration.

I don't think I can appreciate this style but I thought it was an ok beer. Very bready and it was smooth. I probably won't revisit the oktoberfest style. I love ayinger but this was not nearly the best that they make. It wasn't unpleasant by any means but I didn't have a "Wow!" moment.